Hey guys, today I am going to take the time to discuss what's coming out next month from Wildstorm. Later this weekend I will be doing Part Two of my four part review of Welcome to Tranquility. April is an exciting month with lots of new product coming out and we also get a special bonus week for releases as we have five Wednesdays in the month of April.
Kicking the month off, The Authority #9 comes out on 4/1. Also coming out on 4/1 is the final issue of the Mirror's Edge limited series and a big bonus for 4/1 is the DC/Wildstorm Dreamwar trade paperback which I will definitely be picking up. Dreamwar was a six issue miniseries written by Keith Giffen with art by Lee Garbett and Trevor Scott. I haven't read this story yet as I had been waiting for the trade but I plan on reviewing it in this blog sometime in the future.
Wrapping up the busy week of 4/1 we have Prototype #1 (of 6) and the Resident Evil: Fire and Ice tradepaperback.
Unfortunately, with 4/1 being such a heavy week all we get the week of 4/8 is Gen13 #29 and Resident Evil #2 (of 6). Things pick up again on 4/15 with World of Warcraft #18, The X-Files #6 (of 7), Mysterius Unfathomable #4 (of 6) and the Casey Blue: Beyond Tomorrow trade paperback. Going into 4/22 we have Wildcats #10 and Ex Machina #41.
4/29 is going to be a busy week with Fringe #4 (of 6), Gears of War #6, Resistance #5 (of 6) and Supernatural: Rising Son gets the trade paperback treatment.
All said, April is going to be a busy month as World's End continues and we're starting to see a lot of limited series coming to an end. We're also starting to see more and more books get the trade paperback treatment which excites me. The past few months have been relatively slow for new trades coming out from Wildstorm. Hopefully this is the start of a new trend.
With more and more readers switching to the trade format it's important for Wildstorm to cater to many of these customers by providing excitement and good jumping on points for their titles. It's clear that the imprint has had great success with licensed properties as of late but without help from trade paperback sales I don't think World's End will catch on and grow sales with the mainstream comic community anytime in the near future.
It's my understanding that we will see some trades for Wildcats and The Authority later this summer. Part of why there's been such a long wait is that the World's End issues are only 18 pages instead of 22 because we currently get 4 pages of back up stories. That said, it sounds like if you want to get the back up stories you have to buy the single issues unless Wildstorm decides to somehow collect these stories in the future. I think it would be cool if someday they collected all the back ups in one collection. Not everybody gets the four titles a month and I'm sure a lot of people ignore the back ups as they know they won't be getting the next part of the story because they aren't buying the title it's found in.
Unfortunately, DC/Wildstorm: Dreamwar suffered from the same problem lots of crossovers do...relevance. Keith Giffen promised a big impact for the WSU with this crossover but I still don't know what it is. The good side was terrific art. I loved every issue's art. And there are some cool moments, personal favorite dealing with Zealot and Batman. It was fun to see the characters together but I felt it lacked a lot overall.
ReplyDeleteThe World's End trades for The Authority and Wildcats are due Aug. 11 according to amazon.com. And apparently the Stormwatch PHD trade is due in Oct. No word yet on Gen 13.
Ive picked up the Resident Evil mini series! Also got my eye on a few ebay auctions that finish in the next couple of days. Should end up with the first 12 issues of Stormwatch PHD!
ReplyDeleteJust read the Dreamwar trade. I liked it. Was nothing spectacular but was a fun read and I loved the whole idea of groups like Gen13 vs. Teen Titans. Some fun fights even though the story left nothing to really stick for the longterm.
ReplyDelete